What could be more ordinary and familiar ladder?Try to count how many times a day do you go up and down steps - in your own home, in the office, in public transport in the city.Chagall, without thinking about the fact that any ladder - from the primitive ladder up the escalator tape - a symbol of the movement of life.Maybe not in vain constantly remind us how important it is to know at what stage you are, where are moving?
Road in the clouds?
Stairs surround us.The most different: stone and wood, concrete and rope.There are stairs real and virtual - woven from thoughts and deeds that lead the way for the spirit to be overcome: after moving stairs always a little more complicated than a straight line, you need a special effort.
There is another important condition for movement on the stairs.In any other part of the road you can choose from a variety of directions: forward or backward, right, left.On the stairs, the choice is easy, and the most cruel: either up or down.No options.
interesting that in human life, this is probably the most reliable destinations.When circumstances hamstrings, giving step to the right or left, forward or even backward, left, at least two ways - up or down.
Way up is always associated with the future, with new horizons to progress and move down - to decay and retrogression.So, one of the most famous and iconic shots on a par with the world cinema lyumerovskim train, of course, is the famous staircase Eisenstein "The Battleship Potemkin".Driving on it is directed downward: remember the heartbreaking "jump" pram down the stairs? .. Why did the director needed a ladder?But this is the most distinct figurative embodiment of what is going on around you: the Russian state, all the familiar world of rapidly rushing downhill - and a great director chooses the way of the stairs leading down, as a symbol of an abrupt fall leveled.This, by the way, and his subconscious attitude toward the revolution as the fall of society, morals, culture, and so on.
Steps to afford
So, going down the stairs - always fall?Let's not jump to conclusions.After all, there is no bottom of the top, which is true in all mythologies deity has a living at exorbitant heights and depths are gods.That "the main thing"?Both are important: only existing pairing they produce a potential difference, the dynamics of the movement from the bottom to the top and vice versa.They have a beginning and an end, it is the Way.And just moving on this path, overcoming the stairs, we know ourselves.
Where a staircase?In the sky, in heaven, in oblivion, to hell?On the new material level?On top of the social or sporting Olympus?Each has its own staircase - and at the same time, we are moving on a ladder: the evolutionary development of mankind.
Some believe that the person being born, is at the top, and life - is the way to death, that is downhill.Others are convinced that a person comes into this world, in order to rise to the next level, with each birth increasingly approaching the top of eternity, to the summit of truth.Both are right, because each of us has their own life goals.
Secret design
uphill as down the slope, it is possible without any stairs - which will bump, where a bush cling.But quickly: not required before starting the way to cut down the stage.Why mankind needed a ladder?The answer is - in principle, its design, that is, the existence of steps, some intermediate platforms that allow secure, stabilize every step, every meter of reclaimed from the fate of the way.
ladder - a kind of system of levels and sublevels, the essence of which is disclosed in the everyday, everyday sense, and the innermost secret.To be successful in society, man must go through the steps of the career ladder from the bottom up.Having overcome all the steps, without exception, can be sure of a solid, recognized position (status) in society.Education - is also a staircase where each step is even more important than career.Missed stage - I not learned something important, and your knowledge of the world picture is incomplete, distorted.It's about money?Here staircase.On the first level, you earn a dime from a hundred rubles, and take possession of this amount of energy, you learn it properly allocate.Once the income start to receive this level with ease, easily - all right, it is possible to rise above, to master level of income from a hundred to a thousand.And there - again overcome the difficulties you learn to properly allocate the increased monetary energy.And so - step by step, until you reach the top of their own mastery of monetary energy: someone is subject to "recycle" the billions, and someone is not easy to cope with the thousands.
between people there is also a staircase - its steps lead to the first level from the moment of acquaintance, to a peak of relations: love, loyalty, friendship.Said relations should be tested by time.Say precisely, relationships are tested steps of the staircase leading up something (this moment of joy shared) and down (the hardships that must also divide people close).
Undoubtedly staircase - the most important invention.Even the wheel that has enabled humanity to overcome great difficulties and solve many problems, can not lead us to the top without additional tools - such as a rope (the rope and the wheel - is the lift, the wheel and the beam - the lever).But the staircase, even without supports and railings, allowing escape from the circle of the wheel of time, again, rebirth - and displays the top: to light, to the future.
Laws of the top and bottom
Some people, even experienced and mature, climbing to the top, rest on our laurels, are in the belief that it is now nothing threatens.And in vain: the first strong gust of wind will blow away the lonely figure at the peak of the mountain.For the First Law Stairs reads standing is prohibited unless you go further up, unable to know the top or to reach the goal, you are obliged to go down to know the depth, cling to the roots, to plunge himself.
up the steps - then move up the path of personal evolution.You can, of course, take the elevator, but we must remember that the movement of the elevator is comparable to the revolution.After overcoming the elevator breaks the law, the law of spiritual development.Yes, he pushes the scope of time and space - but the rapid upward movement can not only bring down the breath, but also disorient, to devalue the very achievement.After all, the focus is not only to as quickly as possible to get to the top, to get things done.What is important above all he way to the top.
So, it's time to announce the Second Law of stairs on the ladder can not stand it, like an escalator, pull in the opposite direction.The secret of success on the way to the top - in the interaction between the steps and the man going.
Finally, the Third Law Stairs is that stage in principle never end, each new vertex or depth, each new flight - a new round of self-knowledge and peace.
In principle, humanity has learned well enough to climb up the ladder, that is to achieve goals, but not many people manage to go down with dignity: to know the depth of the world and himself.The path up the stairs - is the way of the West, and the movement down to the basics - the way East.Each of us has to learn and climb and descend - that he went up to the top, do not tremble with fear of height to the remaining far below the earth did not seem frightening abyss.
Svetlana Annensky
Articles Source: oracle-today.ru
